starchitects: the podcast
starchitects: the podcast
penzek, llc
Hollywood has its message VERY wrong when portraying what architects and designers do in a day. starchitects:the podcast explores fact versus fiction with the professionals. How many interior designers (shoulder pads included) should work from the residential office of a sole proprietor? Would you pay for the services of an architect who signed off on a building where not only the electrical wiring is shot but the sprinklers won’t work unless you explode the water tanks on the roof (?!) using C4 (Paul Newman, I’m looking at you…)? Do you trust your developer moved the headstones AND the bodies? A&D (architecture and design) professionals Jeff Wolinski, Vince Galea, and Roberta Pennington are joined each episode with a hand-selected “starchitect” in our amazing basement studio in Portland, Oregon and try to tear down what the entertainment industry has built up.
S00/E03 The Lost Episodes: Gingerbread Romance
As James Bond once said—”I thought Christmas only came once a year.” We found a lost present inside the Starchives and we are unwrapping a magnum sized episode for you to ride all the way to work. Well, since most of us now work from home….take it to the bathroom, your bedroom, basement or even to your designated crying or snack room.Enjoy the ins and outs of architecture using gingerbread and Tia or Tamera Mowry.We watch A Gingerbread Romance!
Apr 20, 2021
archi-speak 007: dead lobby syndrome
wait… is this about a weird serial killer’s dumping ground or a term for infertility? how on earth does this word relate to A&D. the starchitects suss it out.
Apr 6, 2021
S00/E02 The Lost Episodes: 12 Angry Men
Are you angry? Are you? Well after this past year during these uncircumcised times filled with despair, hopelessness and flapping dirty foreskin we dove balls deep into the Starchives and pull out all over the place with 12 Angry Men!Lets take a look back on where we were as a society, where we have gone as a society and how much and how little we have changed as a society. Basically thanks for nothing history. When will we ever learn? Same as it ever was….Come on people!
Mar 23, 2021
S00/E01 The Lost Episodes: The Money Pit
Before the team met Tom (aka Better is the Enemy), before “Alive or Dead,” before all the babies and weddings, we recorded in a conference room at work. We even had different intro music. We recorded “The Money Pit” and hoped we were ready to take it to the website. The audio is pretty bouncy and we had microphones in pencil cups on wool coasters.Speaking of “wool,” Shelly Long and pre-Oscar Tom Hanks star along side some Hollywood favorites in this 1986 comedy…. emphasis on COMEDY. Ooo boy... so much comedy. Enjoy our origins and hang tight for some newness….Meanwhile, here’s Jeff and Joelle in lock down. (thank you, Google closed captions!)
Feb 7, 2021
S04/ E07 Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place
Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. Nathan Fillion. …and some other people were in this insipid rom-com/ sit-com that’s like “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” had a third cousin once removed living in Canada no one talks about. Sorry, Canada. I didn’t mean that. I miss you. once upon a time, joelle and nathan fillion were related thru marriage. o, canada!
Mar 27, 2020
archi-speak 005: brandscaping
What is Brandscaping? Whatever it is we have to make sure we don’t nick the balls.
Feb 12, 2020
S04/ E06 The Tower
The Tower is the story of a smart office building that’s mad about Paul Reiser. This high Reiser is the latest in smart technology (beside Paul’s hair plugs) that really hates musicians (especially keyboard players).When Die Hard meets Seinfeld that meets Robin Concord from Cheers in a sauna you have a feature film…a tv movie…a TV show…oh god we don’t know what this is! We watched The Tower!
Jan 28, 2020
archi-speak 004: cadence
jeff, vince, and roberta are a part of the rhythm nation as they discuss the term “cadence” and how it relates to the profession of architecture. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1….
Nov 11, 2019
S04/ E05 The Darkness
Kevin Bacon is the son of a highly respected urban planner, architect and educator Edmund Bacon. This is a film that might make his dad rise from the grave to haunt him for the rest of his life. The Darkness is a movie that follows an architect whose son decides to steal sacred rocks and bring them home to be a part of his Duplo Lego collection. All hell breaks loose—-will his family defeat The Darkness? We don’t mean Keven Bacon’s hair but actual dark spirits that rule from another dimension. You might want to watch other horror films with Keven Bacon such as Friday the 13th or Stir of Echoes but we didn’t!We watched The Darkness—-Happy Halloween!
Oct 29, 2019
S04/ E04 The Architect
When you are in a lonely relationship and all that matters to you is money and how you look to other people then the next logical step is to build your dream house so you can keep up with your “friends”…if this is you then you are the main characters of The Architect. This vapid couple then teams up with a pretentious architect who feels he can build them a house they want but never asked for. Jesus Christ everyone in this movie is pathetic BUT oddly enough, you find a level headed construction manager and another architect that would have completed this dream house on time and under budget. They use the level head construction manager but even he gets consumed by the tidal wave that is a hopeless architect and insipid couple.We watched the Architect!
Sep 30, 2019
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